Your Trade Closed Flat. Your Drawdown Room Didn't. (Intraday Trailing Explained)
One Zone MNQ trade closed at break-even and still used 62% of the drawdown room on an intraday trailing floor. The same trade on static, end-of-day and intraday floors, and what 1,500 simulated account lives show about survival.
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This trade closed at break-even. It still used up 62% of your drawdown room. Same trade, three drawdown floors. A static floor never moves. An end-of-day floor moves only on your closing balance.
An intraday floor moves on every unrealized peak — including profit you never kept. Zone, on micro Nasdaq. Long at 9:31. Eighty-four minutes later it's up $1,874. Then it comes all the way back and closes flat.
On end-of-day, nothing happened. On intraday, the floor rose $1,874 — and it stays there. What that leaves you. On end-of-day: $3,000 of room, untouched. On intraday: $1,123. One trade that made nothing, and almost two thirds of your room is gone.
Across 1,500 simulated lives on the same portfolio, about 8 in 10 survive a year on end-of-day. On intraday, as few as 4 in 10. And when a trade gives its profit back, 3 in 4 of those deaths land on a day that closed green.
Same trades. The floor model decides. Every preset in our catalog — futures and forex — is sized for an end-of-day or a static floor. None is built for intraday trailing, and this is why.
Check the model before you buy the account.
Read the full write-up
- The Same Trade on Three Drawdown Floors: Why Intraday Trailing Charges You for Profit You Never Kept
- What an Intraday Trailing Drawdown Actually Tracks
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All figures are hypothetical or from live-tracked accounts as stated in the video. Past and simulated performance does not guarantee future results. This is educational content, not financial advice.